To:M. N. POKROVSKY

Written:Written January 8, 1917Published:First published in 1958 inVoprosy Istorii KPSSNo. 4.

      Sent from Zurich to Sceaux.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      page596b.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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Ihad just sent you a postcard about the pamphlet (in reply to yours)
when I started receiving the money and have now received 500 frs. in2 instalments, for which I thank you very much.

Ihave also received a formal answer (from the P.O.) that my manuscript
on
			      economics,[1]which I sent you on 2.VII.1916,saisi l’autorité
			  militaire!!![2]

Simplyincredible!! Can anything be done about it, or is it hopeless?

Bestregards and best wishes,Yours,V. Ulyanov

[1]Thisrefers to the manuscript of the bookImperialism, the Highest
Stage of Capitalism(present edition, Vol. 22,
pp. 185–304).—Ed.

[2]Confiscatedby the military authorities.—Ed.